Rick Opper <[email protected]> writes: > ok... > > App Menu: > * About (I guess optional now?)/Help... > * Quit - At least this one seems to be consistent... > * Preferences for the app > > Window/Document Menu: > * File operations (new, open, save(as))... > * Window/view preferences > > Should be simple, but... > > Nautilus has 4 buttons - 2 menus and 2 presets for views. > Documents has NONE, just a magnifying glass and a check button... > Evince has nothing in the app menu, and 2 impossibly unorganized window > menus - I never know which one to open...
Evince has help in the app menu, and it doesn't have About because the implementation is a modal dialog attached to a specific window. It has a view menu and a gear menu, and I agree it's not easy to know which options are in each menu. It's not even obvious that the view menu is shown by pressing on the button. > Just to say that for us users - I'm not a developer - consistency is > very comforting, and a sign of quality, > and for developers, I don't think it's an issue of being spoon-fed, but > rather having a clearer sense of direction. Nautilus, Documents, and > Evince devs want to have good products and probably made their decisions > for the best as they could see it. Having clearer instructions or a > better idea of what the menu system should look like could help them > decide where to put <your super menu item> and keep it consistent... > > I'm sure you have some idea of image in mind for what these menus should > be like and having it fleshed out more - liked or not liked - can only > help developers and the community either implement it or at least > discuss it... > > OK, that's my 2 cents - I've been using gnome since 2.6... can't code to > save my life though :-( > > On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 14:36 +0000, Allan Day wrote: >> Pierre-Yves Luyten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/HIG/ApplicationMenus >> > >> > Could this document be extended to cover the switch between the >> > different views? >> > See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697591. >> >> One of the goals for the new HIG is to try and avoiding spoon-feeding >> people too much, and I'd prefer to avoid listing every possible thing >> you might want to include in that menu. In that sense, this bug is an >> interesting test case for the guidelines. >> >> In general I would say that they indicate that those items shouldn't >> be in the app menu, since they "are specific to a particular window or >> view", but I'd be interested to hear how other people would interpret >> this based on the draft guidelines, and whether they consider them to >> be useful enough. >> >> Allan >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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